This art piece is a commissioned work under the I_C project and a collaboration between textile arts and astronomical institutions. The I_C project was initiated by Maria Jose Ríos and sponsored by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), located in the Andes Mountains, involving multiple artists in a cross-national cooperation. The project aims to create a perspective that combines modern astronomical technology and cultural astronomy in the context of textile art. It visualizes modern astronomical data in textile designs to recreate the dark constellation culture in Inca culture. The main objectives of this experiment are twofold: firstly, to establish the range and coordinates of the fictional ancient Inca dark constellations in contemporary astronomical databases, creating a clear contemporary astronomical definition for ancient astronomical cultures that lack specific definitions. Secondly, to design a data visualization method for the dark constellation data, transforming the data into artistic images and using a DIY laser machine and cyanotype printing to print the results of the astronomical data visualization onto natural fibers through optical exposure.

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